AI Researcher PhD (Full Time) United States
Core
Building frontier AI research, agentic models, and autonomous systems for Cisco's internal use and community release.
Role type
Senior AI Researcher (PhD level)
Builds
Purpose-built internal models, agentic systems, and security-focused AI capabilities
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLM infrastructure, model building, AI/LLM research, experimentation, model architecture, post-training, optimization, inference, deployment, new architecture investigation, training approaches, optimization methods, interpretability techniques
Preferred skills
Inference engines (vLLM, Triton, TorchServe), GPU architecture optimization, agent frameworks, cloud native solutions, cybersecurity principles, Python programming, distributed systems, asynchronous programming
Technologies
vLLM, Triton, TorchServe
Responsibilities
Design and implement data pipelines, training harnesses, evaluation harnesses, and model architectures; conduct rigorous experimentation and measurement to turn research insights into reliable systems; investigate new architectures, training approaches, and interpretability techniques; collaborate with cross-functional teams on data, platform, security, and deployment.
